/taxonomy/term/240426 en /node/2609023/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tue, 2025-07-22 16:05</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> Dhaka: When Fatema Akter went to school in the morning, she was supposed to be back home in the early afternoon. She never returned, along with at least 28 other children who were killed when a Bangladeshi military jet crashed into their classroom in Dhaka.</p> <p> Bangladesh observed a day of national mourning on Tuesday, a day after the Air Force F-7 BGI aircraft went down during class hours at Milestone School and College in the capital’s Diabari area.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/22/4623512-2126970385.jpeg" width="1200" height="800" alt="" title="The mother of an injured student weeps inside a hospital after an Air Force jet crashed into a school in Dhaka on July 21, 2025. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/plane">plane</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/crash">crash</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Tue, 22 Jul 2025 13:07:09 +0000 shounaz.mekky 2609023 at /node/2608427/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2025-07-17 16:04</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Growing up in a poor, densely populated neighborhood of a southern Bangladeshi city, Josna Begum has for most of her life lived in conditions where even access to clean water was rare.</p> <p> As climate change-related heatwaves and floods took an increasing toll in recent years, she joined a women’s community project in 2018 and soon rose to lead it — helping make Hatkhola, the slum area where she lives in Barisal city, a safer and healthier place — and support other women in escaping poverty.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/17/4621972-867308984.jpg" width="750" height="500" alt="" title="Josna Begum, center, who leads the Women’s Squad in Barisal, southern Bangladesh, meets her team and community members in the city’s Hatkhola slum area, October 2021. (Bangladesh Red Crescent)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/barisal">Barisal</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/climate-change">climate change</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/josna-begum">Josna Begum</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Thu, 17 Jul 2025 13:14:40 +0000 seamus.obuachalla 2608427 at /node/2608083/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Mon, 2025-07-14 21:01</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: The child marriage rate continues to rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn, as the latest UN data shows that more than half of Bangladeshi women are married before reaching adulthood — the highest percentage in the whole South Asia.</p> <p> Bangladesh has long had one of the world’s highest rates of child marriage and, unlike other countries in the region, for the past few years has seen the situation worsening.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/14/4621075-375895084.jpg" width="1300" height="766" alt="" title="A Bangladeshi girl (L) wearing a traditional wedding dress takes part in a march in Dhaka, 07 December 2002. (AFP/ file)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/child-marriage">child marriage</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div></div></div> Mon, 14 Jul 2025 18:07:08 +0000 kashaf.rehman 2608083 at /node/2608053/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Mon, 2025-07-14 15:56</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: The child marriage rate continues to rise since the COVID-19 pandemic, experts warn, as the latest UN data shows that more than half of Bangladeshi girls are married before reaching adulthood — the highest percentage in the whole of South Asia.</p> <p> Bangladesh has long had one of the world’s highest rates of child marriage and, unlike other countries in the region, for the past few years has seen the situation worsening.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/14/4621002-362581878.jpg" width="1000" height="667" alt="" title="In this picture taken on Feb. 13, 2025, mothers and pregnant women gather at a medical camp on the outskirts of Sunamganj, Bangaldesh. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/child-marriage">child marriage</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Mon, 14 Jul 2025 13:01:30 +0000 seamus.obuachalla 2608053 at /node/2607837/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sat, 2025-07-12 15:20</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are at heightened risk of losing access to essential services, the UN refugee agency has warned as it struggles to secure adequate funding.</p> <p> Bangladesh hosts more than 1.3 million Rohingya on its southeast coast, who are cramped inside 33 camps in Cox’s Bazar — the world’s largest refugee settlement.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/12/4620464-493089571.jpg" width="3630" height="2419" alt="A Rohingya refugee man carries a gas cylinder at a refugee camp in Ukhia on Sept. 12, 2024. (AFP)" title="A Rohingya refugee man carries a gas cylinder at a refugee camp in Ukhia on Sept. 12, 2024. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/myanmar">Myanmar</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/rohingya">Rohingya</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/rohingya-mulims">Rohingya Mulims</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Sat, 12 Jul 2025 12:22:55 +0000 daniel.fountain 2607837 at /node/2607367/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tue, 2025-07-08 15:19</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Bangladesh’s ready-made garment industry is seeing growing demand in ������Ƶ, industry leaders say, as they look to the Kingdom as a key market for expansion in the Gulf region.</p> <p> The garment sector is a key driver of the Bangladeshi economy. The country is one of the largest garment exporters in the world, second only to China. The industry accounts for more than 80 percent of Bangladesh’s total foreign sales revenue.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/08/4619293-1783110373.jpg" width="1000" height="666" alt="" title="Bangladeshi garment workers tailor clothes at their sewing stations in a factory in Tongi, on the outskirts of Dhaka on July 6, 2025. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/saudi-arabia">������Ƶ</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/gulf-cooperation-council-gcc">Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC)</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Tue, 08 Jul 2025 12:23:11 +0000 seamus.obuachalla 2607367 at /node/2607224/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Mon, 2025-07-07 14:31</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: When Shahid Sardar started his Facebook page four years ago, he wanted to share his experience aboard a fishing boat. He did not expect the millions of views he would soon attract as he tapped into a content niche that is rapidly gaining popularity among Bangladeshis: life at sea.</p> <p> Sardar, 35, lives with his wife and son in the coastal Chittagong district in south-eastern Bangladesh. He started to work as a fisherman in 2013, after leaving a job at a hospital canteen in the capital, Dhaka.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/07/07/4618943-1810697574.jpg" width="1300" height="857" alt="In this photo shared by Shahid Sardar on July 7, 2025, his colleague holds up a catch aboard a fishing vessel in the Bay of Bengal. (Facebook/BD Fisherman)" title="In this photo shared by Shahid Sardar on July 7, 2025, his colleague holds up a catch aboard a fishing vessel in the Bay of Bengal. (Facebook/BD Fisherman)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/main-category/media">Media</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/bay-bengal">Bay of Bengal</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Mon, 07 Jul 2025 11:38:54 +0000 zaynab.khojji 2607224 at /node/2606066/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Fri, 2025-06-27 18:17</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: As US aid cuts have forced the UN’s children agency UNICEF to suspend thousands of learning centers for Rohingya refugee children sheltering in camps in Bangladesh, a small number of community-led schools have now become their only source of education.</p> <p> The Rohingya, a mostly Muslim ethnic minority, have fled from Myanmar’s Rakhine State to neighboring Bangladesh for decades to escape persecution, with more than 700,000 arriving in 2017 following a military crackdown that the UN said was a textbook case of ethnic cleansing by Myanmar.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/06/27/4615920-595160876.jpg" width="726" height="541" alt="" title="Arif Salam, a Rohingya teacher at a community school in a refugee camp in Cox&#039;s Bazar, Bangladesh gestures at a white board during a class. (Supplied by Arif Salam)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/us-aid-cuts">US aid cuts</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/rohingya">Rohingya</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/unicef">UNICEF</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:20:06 +0000 bassam.zaazaa 2606066 at /node/2604283/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2025-06-12 15:51</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: When Sharmin Akter Pinky sat behind the steering wheel for the first time, it was because of her aunt, who encouraged her to venture into a field which, in Bangladesh, had traditionally been dominated by men.</p> <p> “She used to inspire me to be an independent woman and to do something with my own abilities,” Pinky told Arab News.</p> <p> Her aunt saw women learning to drive at a school in Dhaka and convinced the rest of the family that it would be the right path for her niece as well.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/06/12/4611195-1686100042.jpg" width="1300" height="731" alt="Sharmin Akter Pinky, a professional female driver, navigates the roads of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 27, 2025. (AN photo)" title="Sharmin Akter Pinky, a professional female driver, navigates the roads of Dhaka, Bangladesh, on May 27, 2025. (AN photo)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Thu, 12 Jun 2025 13:04:10 +0000 zaynab.khojji 2604283 at /node/2603728/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sat, 2025-06-07 14:36</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: As she prepared for Eid Al-Adha celebrations on Saturday, Nikash Tara could not recall the last time she served a proper meal for her family.</p> <p> In the cramped camps of Cox’s Bazar, a nutritious meal was a near-impossible treat available only during special occasions and solely dependent on charitable contributions.</p> <p> Most days, Rohingya refugee mothers like Tara could only rely on food rations, which have been slashed in recent years due to insufficient funding.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/06/07/4609613-1602854741.jpg" width="850" height="551" alt="" title="This photo published on July 19, 2023 shows a Rohingya refugee and her family share a meal. (WFP) " /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/eid-al-adha">eid al-adha</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/rohingya">Rohingya</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Sat, 07 Jun 2025 11:40:07 +0000 Arbee 2603728 at /node/2602994/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sun, 2025-06-01 18:46</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Bangladeshi prosecutors on Sunday opened the trial of fugitive former Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina, who is charged with orchestrating last year’s deadly crackdown on student-led protests.</p> <p> Peaceful demonstrations, triggered by the reinstatement of a quota system for the allocation of civil service positions, began in early July 2024 but two weeks later they were met with a communications blackout and a violent crackdown by security forces.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/06/01/4607684-1423892417.jpg" width="1343" height="922" alt="Chief prosecutor of Bangladesh&#039;s International Crimes Tribunal Mohammad Tajul Islam (C) speaks during a press conference outside the ICT court in Dhaka on June 1, 2025, after the start of the trial against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (AFP)" title="Chief prosecutor of Bangladesh&#039;s International Crimes Tribunal Mohammad Tajul Islam (C) speaks during a press conference outside the ICT court in Dhaka on June 1, 2025, after the start of the trial against former prime minister Sheikh Hasina. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-pm-sheikh-hasina">Bangladesh PM Sheikh Hasina</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/sheikh-hasina">Sheikh Hasina</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Sun, 01 Jun 2025 15:49:32 +0000 daniel.fountain 2602994 at /node/2601974/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Sat, 2025-05-24 14:55</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Bangladeshi authorities on Saturday raised the alarm over increasing numbers of Rohingya refugees taking risky boat journeys to flee the coastal district of Cox’s Bazar. </p> <p> Bangladesh hosts more than 1.3 million Rohingya Muslims, who, for decades, have fled neighboring Myanmar to escape persecution, especially during a military crackdown in 2017. The majority of them live in Cox’s Bazar in eastern Bangladesh, which has become the world’s largest refugee settlement.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/05/24/4605099-249081651.jpg" width="1000" height="667" alt="" title="A boat carrying Rohingya refugees, sails ashore off the coast of Labuhan Haji in Southern Aceh province on Oct. 23, 2024. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/rohingya">Rohingya</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Sat, 24 May 2025 11:56:49 +0000 Arbee 2601974 at /node/2601609/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Wed, 2025-05-21 16:05</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Bangladeshi pilgrims are enjoying the care and attention of dozens of Saudi officers who under the Makkah Route initiative are working around the clock at Dhaka’s main airport to ensure smooth immigration for Hajj.</p> <p> About 87,000 Bangladeshi pilgrims are expected to perform the spiritual journey that is one of the five pillars of Islam. This year, the Hajj is expected to start on June 4 and end on June 9.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/05/21/4604149-1227330289.jpg" width="1000" height="563" alt="" title="A Saudi immigration official assists Bangladeshi pilgrims under the Makkah Route initiative at Dhaka airport, May 3, 2025. (AN Photo) " /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/hajj-2025">Hajj 2025</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/makkah-route-initiative">Makkah Route initiative</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Wed, 21 May 2025 13:11:39 +0000 seamus.obuachalla 2601609 at /node/2599987/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-author field-type-text field-label-inline clearfix"><div class="field-label">Author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Thu, 2025-05-08 15:13</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: ������Ƶ and Bangladesh held the first meeting of their Joint Committee on Defense Cooperation, as Dhaka seeks to strengthen its security ties with the Kingdom. </p> <p> Maj. Gen. Mohammed Ibrahim Al-Khalidi, assistant chief of training and development of the Armed Forces of ������Ƶ, was in Dhaka to lead a Saudi delegation for the three-day talks, which concluded on Thursday. </p> <p> The Bangladeshi side was led by Lt. Gen. S.M. Kamrul Hassan, principal staff officer of Bangladesh’s Armed Forces Division during the discussion. </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/05/08/4599872-1499724553.jpeg" width="1300" height="526" alt="Saudi and Bangladeshi military officials take part in the first meeting of Saudi-Bangladesh Joint Committee on Defense Cooperation in Dhaka on May 6, 2025. (ISPR)" title="Saudi and Bangladeshi military officials take part in the first meeting of Saudi-Bangladesh Joint Committee on Defense Cooperation in Dhaka on May 6, 2025. (ISPR)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div><div class="field-item odd"><a href="/category/tags/saudi-arabia">������Ƶ</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Thu, 08 May 2025 12:36:25 +0000 zaynab.khojji 2599987 at /node/2599700/world <div class="field field-name-field-rbitem-author field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">article author:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/taxonomy/term/240426">SHEHAB SUMON</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-id field-type-text field-label-above"><div class="field-label">ID:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">1746519427246852600</div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-publication-date field-type-datestamp field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tue, 2025-05-06 08:14</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p> DHAKA: Bangladesh’s former Prime Minister Khaleda Zia drew large crowds of supporters on Tuesday as she returned to Dhaka after four months of medical treatment in London.</p> <p> The 78-year-old leader of the main opposition — the Bangladesh Nationalist Party — was welcomed by thousands of supporters, some waving Bangladesh and BNP flags, who gathered amid tight security outside Dhaka’s main airport and along the road leading to her residence.</p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-binary field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="/sites/default/files/2025/05/06/4599276-1364694672.jpg" width="1300" height="867" alt="Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party, gestures to a crowd of supporters upon her arrival in Dhaka on May 6, 2025. (AFP)" title="Khaleda Zia, Bangladesh’s former prime minister and leader of the Bangladesh National Party, gestures to a crowd of supporters upon her arrival in Dhaka on May 6, 2025. (AFP)" /></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-1 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Main category:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/world">World</a></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-taxonomy-vocabulary-9 field-type-taxonomy-term-reference field-label-above"><div class="field-label">Tags:&nbsp;</div><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="/tags/bangladesh-0">Bangladesh</a></div></div></div> <span class="label abs-el uppercase special"> Special </span> Tue, 06 May 2025 08:24:34 +0000 rbksa 2599700 at